Car Brands Ranked by Owner Satisfaction
Consumer Reports’ Annual Owner Satisfaction Survey tells us how subscribers feel about the cars they bought. But how do the car brands themselves match up? After all, one outstanding model—or a disappointing one—doesn’t define a brand.
Our brand rankings represent owner sentiment across each brand’s product line. (Model satisfaction is determined by the percentage of owners who responded “definitely yes” to the question of whether they would buy the same vehicle if they had it to do all over again.) To determine brand love—or disdain—we took a straight average of the satisfaction score for each brand’s models.
In order to qualify, the brand had to have at least two models with data. For this analysis, we focused on cars from model years 2014-2017 to represent the current state of the brands, which included over 300,000 vehicles from the survey.
Our survey revealed that the Tesla, Porsche, Audi, and Subaru brands remained in the top four spots, again this year. Some other brands were on the move. Lincoln climbed from 21st place last year to 12th this year, and Hyundai shot up to 13th from 24th, based on the strength of new and recently redesigned models.
http://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/car-brands-ranked-by-satisfaction/
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I'd by another one. My KIA Soul has performed flawlessly, now, for four years. Good car.